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* Spreads awareness and critiquing the Government’s introduction of casual independent employment contracts
* Spreads awareness and critiquing the Government’s introduction of casual independent employment contracts
* Created as a faux saint, which mimics the many rituals of saint idolisation
* Created as a faux saint, which mimics the many rituals of saint idolisation
* A reaction to the ‘flexiworker’ has particular resonance in Italy as the contemporary government policies reject the post-war traditionalism of il posto fis, or ‘permanent position’
* Italy has very little in the way of a social security system. Thus the plight of the casualised worker, who often falls into periods of unemployment, can become significantly disadvantaged
* Italy embraced the 1970’s movement of ‘free-flexibility’ which promoted freedom from salaries and capitalist control
* The Italian Government in recent years has used this concept of ‘flexibility’ to introduce exploitative individual contracts
* San Precario’s request is for Flexicurity, welfare which protects workers without rejecting their earlier independent ideals of ‘Flexibility’

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San Precario

  • Emerges as an iconographic figure within Italy in 2004
  • Spreads awareness and critiquing the Government’s introduction of casual independent employment contracts
  • Created as a faux saint, which mimics the many rituals of saint idolisation
  • A reaction to the ‘flexiworker’ has particular resonance in Italy as the contemporary government policies reject the post-war traditionalism of il posto fis, or ‘permanent position’
  • Italy has very little in the way of a social security system. Thus the plight of the casualised worker, who often falls into periods of unemployment, can become significantly disadvantaged
  • Italy embraced the 1970’s movement of ‘free-flexibility’ which promoted freedom from salaries and capitalist control
  • The Italian Government in recent years has used this concept of ‘flexibility’ to introduce exploitative individual contracts
  • San Precario’s request is for Flexicurity, welfare which protects workers without rejecting their earlier independent ideals of ‘Flexibility’